Evan Samek Email & Phone Number

Remote, US

Leading CrowdStrike’s future Design System strategy and the Design System Team to bring in a new era of experiences for The Falcon Platform.

San Francisco, CA, US

Happy to be an official mentor on ADPList, providing mentorship on everything from the craft of product design to navigating organizational psychology within a product development team. I love connecting with new folks and providing my experience to new product designers. Reach me here: https://adplist.org/mentors/evan-samek

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Promoted by leadership to be the first Principal UX Designer at Rapid7. Tasked with bringing cloud security capabilities and new solutions to all non-cloud products within Rapid7’s platform.* Mentored with over 85 UX Designers across Rapid7 in cloud technology & security basics.* Led all discovery and lean design efforts for a brand new cloud detection and.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Led and hired the international user experience design team for the Cloud Security practice within Rapid7. Responsible for the full product design strategy for the complex cloud security product “InsightCloudSec”.* Hired & managed 4 UX Design direct reports across the US, Ireland, and Israel. * Created the foundational experience design for 5 critical.

Promoted to officially hire and build out the processes of the user experience team. Responsible for integrating user experience best practices across the product-development organization.* Increased UX & front-end engineering implementation speed by 300% implementing the first design system.* Led Product Managers, Engineers, and a team of 2 UX Designers.

Brought on board by the founders of DivvyCloud to infuse user experience and product management practices into a successful engineering team. Hired the first product manager.* Within just 6 months, implemented an entire Agile framework, enhancing collaboration and efficiency.* Created the Product Management and the UX Design Organization from scratch.*.

Mclean, VA, US

Promoted to Senior Product Manager after 5 months as UX Design Lead based on product management background and familiarity directing engineering teams. Collaborated and partnered with an engineering team of ~7 UI, Backend, & QA Engineers.

Mclean, VA, US

Frederick, Maryland, US

Promoted and responsible for the entire user experience strategy and direction of all of Fugue’s products after hiring a VP of Product to take over most product management responsibilities.* Led all user experience efforts across 3 distinct products, directing a team of 2 Designers and 2 Engineers.* Collaboratively designed a one-of-a-kind data.

Frederick, Maryland, US

Promoted to Director of Product Management after 6 months by CEO due to positive impact on cross-organization processes and collaboration. Managed and mentored 2 junior Technical Product Manager on Agile and Product Management best practices.* Led all Product Management processes using Agile for an initial team of ~20 Engineers & 2 Designers.

Frederick, Maryland, US

First UX Design hire at Fugue to bring human centered design practices and user experience processes to an engineering-first company. Designed style guide for Fugue’s CLI, the main interface at the time.

Washington, DC, US

Led HelloWallet’s user experience strategy across all products, in addition to hiring and managing a diverse UX Team. Worked with behavioral scientists to implement behavior change experiences resulting in better financial outcomes for our users.* Grew & managed the UX team from 1 to a 5 person team including a 1 UX Manager, 3 UX Designers and a 1 UX.

Washington, DC, US

Responsible for creating the core experiences and front end engineering for 3 web apps, 1 iPad App, and a mobile app for both iOS and Android. Worked alongside graphic design team to develop UI Design standards and design systems. Created of complex data-visualization based product features. * Core product won the 2013 Webby Award for best UI/UX of any.

Washington, DC, US

Responsible for engineering & maintaining HelloWallet's entire front-end technology architecture and UI Design of initial product experiences.

Washington, DC, US

Chicago, IL, US

Pixel Dreamer was a company founded by Mac Heller-Ogden and I in 2009.The startup was a Web Development shop that included creating large scale applications and medium sized business marketing sites.Responsible for all business relations, sales, design and implementation work for all the above.

Multi-instrumentalist and composer.Instruments:Guitar, Bass Guitar, Drums, Percussion, Vocals, Piano, Samplers, Synthesizers, Banjo, Mandolin, Harmonica, Ukelele, Theremin, Balinese Gamelan, Oboe, Clarinet, Soprano SaxophoneSoftware:Logic, Garageband, Pro Tools, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, QuicktimeWork:Film Scoring - Internal, Commercial, Private and.

Alexandria, Virginia, US

Designer & UI DeveloperSocial Media Consultant

Gaithersburg, MD, US

Worked with engineers on front-end implementation of IT monitoring systems and integration with existing PERL backend solutions.

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